AskHistorians Podcast 085 - In Search of the Taino

05/03/17 • 99 min

Antonio Curet, archaeologist and curator at the Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, DC, talks with us about the Taíno civilization of the Greater Antilles. (99min)

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Antonio Curet, archaeologist and curator at the Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, DC, talks with us about the Taíno civilization of the Greater Antilles. (99min)

Please leave us your thoughts and questions in the discussion thread in the subreddit, which can be found here.

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